verb/ɑ̃.fi.ʁwa.pe/
to scam, swindle, or trick someone
Originally enfifrewâper, a nonce word coined in the Montreal newspaper Le Vrai Canard, in August, 1879. From Parisian slang word enfifrer (“to bugger (sodomize); to dupe”) + another verb, perhaps rouâper, a Québecois variant of râper (“to grate”). According to a widely accepted popular etymology (which has even been taken up by a number of reference books), the word comes from English in fur wrapped, but this phrase is almost nonexistent in English, not to mention that the expected phonological